The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-12
THE STOVE-MOLDERS' STRIKE
The Chicago Men Joined by Their Broth
rem at a Number of Other Cities.
A Part of Chicago's Contracting Carpenters
Make Terms with the Strikers. and Two
Thousand Men Will Go to Work To-Day.

CHICAGO April 1.-THE stove-moders en-
ployed by Collins & BURGESS foundry quit work
this morning. This, together with the men who
struck on Saturday. throws six hundred men out
of work.
dispatch received to-day from Quincy. H.,
says that all the molders in tina: town have
struck The present strike is owing to the strike
inaugurated at the works of Bridge g. Beach, in
st. Louis, owing to their refusal to grant an in
crease of Is per cent in wages. According to
the provisions of the agreement of the Manu-
facturers' Association, several firms in Quincy,
Chicago and Milwaukee have taken work from
the Bridge & Beach Company. The St Louis
refuse such work, and the present strike is the
consequence. 1t is thought that the Milwaukee
stove molders will refuse to work any cast
ings for the Bridge & Beach Company, and that
general lockout in that city will follow. Mr..
Henry Cribben, of this city, said to-day that the
prospects were that there would be a long lock-
out. I'VE can't give in" he continued,
without violating our agreement with
the association. Even if this were
not the case, we could not accomplish anything
by opening up and refusing the St. Louis work.
The demand for 10 per cent increase there
was only preparatory to general demand for
the Same scale. If IL had been granted by the
Bridge 81 Beach Company, every stove firm in
the country would have to pay the same wages.
This would have been ruinous to many At the
beginning of the present season we talked the
matter over and decided to advance wages. We
offered the men an increase of per cent, but
this they refused. We then tried to get the
manufacturers to advance the scale, but as many
of them owned their iron at a much lower price
than the present market. they would not con-
sent to any advance. We who have stock of
iron could not afford to raise wages more than
per cent. unless the price-list of stoves was ad
vanced in proportion, so the negotiations fell
through. don't regard this n strike against
making stoves for Bridge & Beach. 1t y a just
demand for higher wages"
LEAvENwoRTH. Kan. April 1.-THE stove
molders of this city, $50 to 200 in number. en-
ployed in the Great Western and the Union
stove WORKS, have quit work, refusing to make
patterns sent here by the Bridge & Beach Co.. OF
st. Louis. The employers say they expect an
early settlement OF the difficulty.
KEoKUK, Ia, April 11.-To-day, boycotted St.
Louis patterns were given to the molders in the
Keokuk Central stove works. The men refused
to work with them and are out for an indefinite
period.
Partial Adjustment of q Strike.
CHICAGO. April 1.-THE strike of the 1000
union carpenters is still in progress. The Master
Carpenters Association is initiating new mem
bers, and the members declare that they will
not accede to the carpenters demands This
afterno DON, however, fifty bosses met and. after
declaring they had no sympathy with the Master
Carpenters Association, appointed committee
to confer with like body from the Carpenters
Council and arrange the terms upon which the
men should return to work. After consultation
with the strikers executive committee organ
ization was formed. to be known as the Iude-
pendent Master Carpenters Association. The
terms of the strikers were at once acceded to on
condition that the strike be declared off as far
as members of the new association of employers
are concerned. This agreed to by the strik-
ers, and it is expected that about one-eighth Of
the men will thus resume work imme
diately, the eight-hour plan, at 35
cents an hour, disputes to be settled
between employer and employee, not by
arbitration between the carpenters union and
the masters association. The result marks an
important divergence from the programme de-
clared by the carpenters at the beginning of the
strike They then announced that no carpen-
tiers would be allowed to return to work until all
the contractors gave In, or the strike. whole,
was declared failure.